Bücher von Edward Korczynski

For centuries, the liturgy of the Catholic Church, the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM), was renowned for its elegance, profound sacredness and transcendent beauty. With Pope John's "aggiornamento" as realized by the Second Vatican Council, the faithful were presented with the "Novus Ordo" (new order) mass, a liturgy designed to be more down to earth and involve the congregation more. For Ed Korczynski,-and many other Catholics-with this decision, the Church trashed a magnificent liturgy and replaced it with a mundane, not-too-special, somewhat holy social gathering. In recent years, the crime has been compounded by Pope Francis' motu propio, Traditionis Custodes, clearly intended to deprecate the TLM in favor of the Novus Ordo. In Part One of the book, Korczynski reports that this was never the intent of the Council fathers. The Dogmatic Constitution on the Liturgy makes it clear that the Council intended to retain the TLM.

Like an American Chesterton, Ed Korczynski has taken a hard look at our current moral environment, compared it to the one within which he grew up in the 1950s and 60s, and asked himself "What the heck happened?". In this short volume, he has given his cogent analysis of the moral situation in America today and found it wanting. In answer to the issues he raises, Korczynski proposes solutions inspired by his Catholic upbringing that have been shown to be effective throughout the Church's 2,000 year history. Korczynski says upfront that he will not be politically correct and he delivers on his promise. Ed is one of those writers who intuits what everybody else is thinking but is afraid to say out loud. In The Lone Sailboat, he says it for them. This book is a bracing read for anyone who has ever wondered, "What the heck happened."